page_title: Seattle tugboats
section_title: Post war work
hierarchical_section_title: Seattle tugboats / Post war work
caption_attribution_description: The Sand Man, a restored tugboat moored at Percival Landing Park in Olympia, Washington.
context_page_description: There is a long marine tradition of Seattle tugboats. The complex inlets of Puget Sound needed tugs to move sailing vessels against contrary winds. Tugs would wait in the open Pacific off Cape Flattery to greet the sailing ships entering the sound to move lumber. During the war years and the Alaskan booms, it became of renewed importance.
context_section_description: After the Second World War, the steam fleet was retired and replaced with war built tugs from the navy, and from the army (Army Transport Service). No steam tugs survive in Puget Sound (even with the addition of the Magic and Moonlight). New welded steel tugs came online, complete with high speed diesel engines. Pulp mills were built, as were highways and bridges which all needed cement and stone revetment. The Korean and Vietnam Wars put demands on Pacific shipping, including tugs.
  There was the ongoing sea-lift to Alaska, with the food, fuel, industrial parts, machinery, and construction supplies needed to be embarked and hauled to the northern state.  The Alaska North Slope oil boom at Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Tongass Logging, and the Cold War brought more barge traffic.
caption: Sand Man, restored tugboat moored at the Percival Landing Park in Olympia, Washington
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